Piano Master Class with Jonathan Biss: Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110

Pianist Jonathan Biss coaches Yilin Liu on the details of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 31.
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As a complement to his set of concerts this season at Carnegie Hall devoted to the “late style,” pianist Jonathan Biss gives two public master classes to six young artists on the late solo works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert. The workshop takes place in the Resnick Education Wing in collaboration with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. To learn more about Workshops and Master Classes at Carnegie Hall visit: www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Workshops-and-Master-Classes/

[@AL-pu7ux]

Biss creates color with a blend timing and key velocity but mainly microseconds of time in such a brilliant way. Each note also relates to the last every single time. His playing is just astonishing and his new Beethoven album is phenomenal. Maybe the best I’ve ever heard.

[@topheryoung375]

My damn, music is incredible.

[@lourak613]

It would be instructive for all to watch the master class Biss participated in with Barenboim. It is obvious here how much he was influenced by him.

[@hdlamb1170]

I'm not sure what other contact he had with Barenboim, but it's hard to imagine his understanding of music being so heavily shaped by one masterclass. Perhaps. But Biss at that young age was seemingly already a terrifyingly well-developed musician, clearly incredibly analytical, boundless intellectual curiosity. Barenboim was obviously very impressed, and offered no more guidance than was essential, allowing him to carve out his own very bright future.

[@jules153]

It's the sense of anguish that's missing. Biss is incredible in his interpretations

[@carnegiehall]

Thank you for watching!

[@1ImmanuelK]

I think that studying some of the earlier sonatas might give the student focus, depth of tone and courage of expression.

[@SpontaneityJD]

21:46 what's that word? "recessitive?"

[@bethrangel]

Jonathan Biss After watching this video, I decided to write to you. Very well done by Yilin Liu, the character you insisted on suggesting for the performance of Beethoven's Opus 110 fits exactly to the ideas I have been developing about the narrative quality of this work. My speculations on this subject appear as Handel's Messiah and Beethoven's op. 110, 123, and 125 at www.manuka.com.br/artigos/. So, I would like to introduce you to such ideas.

[@MrInterestingthings]

Mind in music is a difficult thing to get across . U watch Schiff,Perahia,Ohlssohn give a lesson and you realize depth is required to give great music a life . Not a career for many of us ! Every pianist I've watched inmasterclass wants an intensity almost supernaturally unhealthy : and that is why playing Messiaen,CarlVines,Scriabin,Chopin and Beethoven take so much . If like Ingrid Haebler (a genius !) or Maria Pirez (like Uchida and others these people are in another spiritual world than the rest of us!) you concentrate on Mozart,Hadyn and esp. Schubert somehow the urgency and depth of what is being said is still not done away with. A career as a musician is unbelievably fraught with communicative problems besides the careering. Your audience mostly has no idea what you're saying anyway they just hear happy or sad tunes . What a seemingly thankless existence . You really do it because you have to and are playing for yourself and the few specialists around you ! Even other musicians don't follow .as one sees with the comments here ! Life on Earth ! Wow . Art goes beyond us humans yet we create it !

[@andrewzhang8280]

tragic that he didnt get to the fugue

[@Torebordalpiano]

She is not impressed

[@mcrettable]

she should play chopin, not beethoven xD

[@bachopinbee5991]

She's not so bad for her age. Beethoven is a more psychologically demanding composer and so is Biss. Such an interpretative genius

[@AA-xo4br]

Beethoven’s rolling underneath